KiloPatches
Senior Member
I am stressed about school. I had midterms on the 4th, 5th and 6th. But I have a psychiatric disorder that flares up when I get stressed out so my psychiatrist wrote me a doctor's note requesting that I "spread out my midterm exams" so then they were on the 10th, 14th and 17th. I got an 82% on the one on the 10th (and it was worth 50% of my grade.... phew). I am stressing over the one tomorrow, and the one on Monday because I don't think I will do nearly as well. I will do a fair enough job, like 60-70 range maybe, but THAT's NOT GOOD ENOUGH! I want to get into grad school! Theres more to these exams than just a grade, theres my future hanging in the balance. My only means of coping right now - because all I do is study - is NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, where you write 50,000 words in 30 days for the month of November. I was on track until about 3 days ago. I am at 16,500 words. I need to be at 21,000 words. I am going to write some tonight. Take a break from all this studying and just relax. I need to seriously catch up though if I am to finish my novel on time. NaNo is great because I meet wit my region twice a week where we all get together at a coffee shop and write together and support each other - its a real stress relief. But even my relaxation is becoming stressful because I am falling behind!